 | The London Quarterly Review VOL.IV April and July,1855 - 1855 - 590 pages
...and ceremonial ; above all, by wonderful and stirring examples of the most profound, however ascetie, devotion, of mortification, and self-sacrifice, and...there was some being, even on earth, whose special dutv it was to defend the defenceless, to succour the succourless, to be the refuge of the widow and... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 852 pages
...oppressed the subject as much as it enslaved the church, he taught his age ' that there was a l>cing on earth whose special duty it was to defend the defenceless, to succour the succourless, to afford a refuge to the widow and orphan, and to be the guardian of the poor.' Dean Milman sums up his... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 872 pages
...oppressed the subject as much as it enslaved the church, he taught his age 'that there was a being on earth whose special duty it was to defend the defenceless, to succour the succourless, to afford a refuge to the widow and orphan, and to be the guardian of the poor.' Dean Milman sums up his... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1874 - 868 pages
...oppressed the subject as much as it enslaved the church, he taught his age 'that there was a being on earth whose special duty it was to defend the defenceless, to succour the succourless, to afford a refuge to the widow and orphan, and to be the guardian of the poor.' Dean Milman sums up his... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 870 pages
...oppressed the subject as much as it enslaved the church, he taught his age 'that there was a being on earth whose special duty it was to defend the defenceless, to succour the succourless, to afford a refuge to tho widow and orphan, and to be the guardian of the poor.' Dean Milman sums up his... | |
 | 1883 - 842 pages
...oppressed the subject as much as it enslaved the church, he taught his age 'that there was a being on earth whose special duty it was to defend the defenceless, to succour the euccourless, to afford a refuge to the widow and orphan, and to be the guardian of the poor.' Dean... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - England - 1897 - 506 pages
...all, by wonderful and stirring examples of mortification and self-sacrifice and self-discipline, ... by splendid charities, munificent public works, cultivation...defend the defenceless, to succour the succourless. . . . All these things, with all the poetry of the Middle Ages in its various forms of legend, of verse,... | |
 | Literature - 1905 - 730 pages
...which oppressed the subject as much as it enslaved the Church, he taught his age that there was a being on earth whose special duty it was to defend the defenceless, to succour the helpless, to afford a refuge to the widow and the orphan and to be the guardian of the poor." Dean... | |
 | 1906 - 604 pages
...much as it enslaved the Church, he taught his age ' that there was a being on earth whose especial duty it was to defend the defenceless, to succour the succourless, to afford a refuge to the widow and orphan, and to be the guardian of the poor '." — Editor's note.]... | |
 | Joseph Ripley Chandler - Church and state - 1909 - 92 pages
...much as it enslaved the Church, he taught his age ' that there was a being on earth whose especial duty it was to defend the defenceless, to succour the succourless, to afford a refuge to the widow and orphan, and to be the guardian of the poor '." — Editor's note.]... | |
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By his firm and unbending efforts to suppress the unchristian vices which deformed society, and to restrain the tyranny which oppressed the subject as much as it enslaved the church, he taught his age 'that there was a being on earth whose special duty... 